About
RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
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- #tesla how often do you have to explain to Valets how to drive the car? Especially in LA and SF, I’d imagine not much education is required. 2 hours ago
- Wow. 72% of peremptory challenges in Cal study are blacks. 0.5% white. I haven’t studied the methodology, but your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 hours ago
- #ux man, dashboards have a lot of useless crap these days. they were fixed back in the day and had dummy lights. s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- WTF? Are they do something in particular to encourage options trading? Pricing? Easier approvals? twitter.com/mdudas/status/… 6 hours ago
- How young do you have to be to not know the origin of the word “slide”? 7 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
- Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- Favorite things, day 4: TiVo
- Favorite things, day 5: Alaska Airlines
- Favorite things, day 6: First Republic
Top Posts
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- About Rakesh Agrawal
- How do you pay for a ride on SF Muni with a $20 and a $1?
- Asking meaningless questions: CBS' faulty poll on TSA screening
- The experience is the product
- Because manholes are round
- 35W bridge collapses in Minneapolis
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Daily Archives: August 11, 2011
Comments from an Australian daily deals site that pivoted
Here is an email exchange I had with an Australian deals site that pivoted away from the daily deals model. Note that, as I’ve said in the past, an upfront payment model encourages fraud from merchants who take the money … Continue reading
Posted in daily deals, groupon
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The SEC should have Groupon start over on its S-1
I’ve spent much of the last two days dissecting the second amendment to the Groupon S-1. I was hoping to post my complete thoughts tonight, but I’ve seen so much shoddy reporting on this S-1 that I want to make … Continue reading
Posted in groupon
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